On 21.05.2026 I held my „Solutions for (Modern?) Software Development – Approximations From a 21-Year Journey” at the Scrum Masters HH XXL event (in person and in German).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the registration page can be found here:
https://www.meetup.com/scrum-master-meetup-hamburg/events/312511979
The event location was:
Hammerbrooklyn.DigitalCampus
Stadtdeich 2
Hamburg
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=53.54547%2C%2010.008287
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Richard Sheridan‘s „Joy, Inc.“
- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister in „Peopleware (re-visited)“: „The High-Tech Illusion“
- Gunter Dueck‘s re:publica 2015 talk on the topic of „Swarm Stupidity“
- Uwe Friedrichsen‘s latest blog post „We Are Our Own Worst Enemies”
- Uwe Friedrichsen’s JAX 2026 slides: „The 7 Pitfalls of AI“
- Uwe Friedrichsen’s AI-related blog posts:
- Andrew Murphy’s blog post: “If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems“
- Kevlin Henney’s: „Code Generation – So that you can do the wrong thing faster.”
- John Allspaw: “How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day“
—> Outstanding talk covering a lot of topics, e.g.: „What happens when your senior developer starts to talk about his/her mental model in front of the team?” - Dave Snowden’s Craft 2019 keynote
- Neil Postman: Technopoly
- Interview between Otto Scharmer & Tristan Harris
- Frederic Laloux:
- Guide to my Mastodon hashtags
- Last but not least:
- The link to all other sources I did mention in the „Thoughts“-related discussions since 2024